<p>“I am sure I was told that you have much less chances to get into a good residency if you completed med school outside the US and then you just take the medical boards.”</p>
<p>This may be true, but you have to consider the total odds resulting from the difficulty of getting into undergraduate college in the US, successfully completing a pre-med program here, successfully being admitted to med school here, and then applying for that residency. Overall, you will most likely be ahead just going to med school in your home country and then taking the foreign boards.</p>
<p>Not to mention saving serious money along the way. Four years of college/university in the US will be a minimum of $100,000. Four years of med school here (if you can get in) will be $250,000 and up.</p>